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Fig. 13.7 As in Fig. 13.5 but
for anomalous precipitation
ıP . Extreme values of the
color scale may vary among
panels
the reduction in upwind evaporation where the aerosol plume extends offshore from
West Africa.
For each experiment in Table 13.1 , global precipitation is reduced by dust
radiative forcing, a decrease that has been noted previously (e.g., Coakley and
Cess 1985 ; Miller and Tegen 1998 ; Miller et al. 2004b ; Liepert et al. 2004 ).
However, the relation of global evaporation and precipitation to surface forcing